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Tech blog

Technical blog

Published

26th October 2025

Modified

22nd December 2025

I keep little snippets of techy things all over the place and so thought it might be a smart idea to begin collecting them in one place to make them easier for me to find. This is that place, presented as a technical blog of code snippets, ways of doing things with tools and software in my research, workflows and the like. If you find it useful, great.

Date Title Description Word Count
12th November 2025 Moving from SubStack to listmonk Taking my SubStack subscribers to a new self-hosted email service 818 words
7th November 2025 Quick codes A little bucket of one-liners to do clever things in the terminal 200 words
5th November 2025 Mermaid Installation and usage of the command-line version of the JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool. 323 words
26th September 2025 Text alignment in quarto A way to align text right in both pdf and html outputs in quarto documents. 194 words
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